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unkown root password and mkdir problem.

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when installing debian I entered eight digits as the root password. The 
instillation completed successfully. Later I tried to become root but 
the eight digits didn't work and many permutations also didn't work.

I have used sudo successfully with many commands including mkdir but 
sudo tar fails to uncompress files because it cannot make the necessary 
directories. That is sudo tar runs but must use mkdir which fails.

I have found mkdir in /usr/bin and changed the ownership to root:tom and 
given it rwx permissions but this does not solve the problem.

If there are no suggested solutions to this email tomorrow I will backup 
all my files to external drive and reinstall bullseye

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unkown root password and mkdir problem. Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2021-11-06 00:30 +0100
  Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Jeremy Ardley <jeremy@ardley.org> - 2021-11-06 00:40 +0100
    Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-06 01:10 +0100
    Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Thomas George <lists@tomgeorge.info> - 2021-11-06 03:20 +0100
      Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-11-06 07:30 +0100
  Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 13:20 +0100
    Re: unkown root password and mkdir problem. Michael Castellon <castellonmichael@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 16:00 +0100

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